Author's Preface: Everyone in this story is eighteen years old or older. The story is entirely fictional. Any similarities to real people or events are purely coincidental. Constructive comments are always welcome.
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Sorority House Portraits - The new pledges pose for nude pictures
It was pledge time again at Theta Alpha Beta. Each sorority had its own character and reputation. Theta Alpha Beta (TAB) had a well-earned reputation as the slutty sorority and the sisters helped earn and maintain that reputation. It was also the most fun and casual sorority on campus.
This year, fifteen rushes were invited to pledge TAB, and twelve accepted. The girls had all been through the rush period where they visited all the sororities. At the TAB rush parties, each girl was told, in private, about the reputation of TAB and the pride they had in it. The TAB sisters did not want to waste their time on girls who would run at the first suggestion of nudity or sex. TAB only invited girls who they thought would make it through the pledge period and would fit in with the other sisters. But still, a lot would drop out during the pledge period or be asked to leave because they weren't a good fit. Only a few had what it took to be a TAB sister.
Within a week the sisters thought they knew which pledges would make it, but sometimes people surprise you.
Willow was a rush from Nowhere, West Texas. After much debate, she was the last of the rushes who were invited to pledge TAB. Tammy Tatum insisted that Willow had what it took.
When a rush accepted their invitations to pledge TAB, they got their pledge pin and for the next six weeks, they evaluated the sorority, and the sorority evaluated them. Each pledge was assigned a "big sister" to help through the pledging process. Since it was Tammy who fought for Willow to be invited, she was asked to be her big sister.
Pledging was fun for those who were TAB material. It was a probationary period but most of the time the pledges were treated like sisters. The sorority had invited them, but they wanted to make sure that they were a good fit for each other. Pledges needed to be devoted to this group of women who would be their friends forever. To assess their determination, they were put through a series of "tests" to see if they would be a good addition to the sorority.
Unlike the "good old days", harsh hazing was not allowed or acceptable. Of course, "harsh" can have a broad definition. TAB pushed the definition every year.
Whether it's called testing or hazing, the process began on the second day. Every pledge knew that TAB was the slutty sorority, so they should have known that the pledging process was going to push their boundaries. The tasks they were asked to do weren't always the same, but they always got progressively more difficult as the pledge period went on.
The pledge mistress came up with the tasks. She might be an easy mistress or a hard one. Kelly was this year's pledge mistress, and she would be tough on the girls.
The tasks at TAB never involved forced drinking or forced ingestion of drugs, although both were available. There was no body shaming, or anything involving physical abuse. It was more focused on a girl facing her fears and the tasks were always at least a little sexual. Some were extremely sexual. Sisters were comfortable in their bodies and their sexuality. It was an adjustment for some, and others would never overcome their fears. TAB had to maintain its reputation.
The first week, the tasks the pledges did were the same as at any other sorority. They were boring things, like learning the history and official values of the chapter, the sorority oath, rules, and song. Any sister at any time could ask you to recite the oath, show their pledge pin, or sing the song. At school, it was embarrassing if it was two minutes before class and you had to sing the sorority song in the hall. They might wake you at 2 a.m. to sing the song or recite the oath. That was irritating. Pledges helped with the grunt work when the sorority did community service activities and they cleaned the house's public areas and the bathrooms.
The second week the sorority started weeding out the people who wouldn't make it at TAB. They had to individually recite the oath and then do a little dance number while singing the sorority song - in skimpy underwear for all the sisters. It was embarrassing, but the sisters all cheered for you and made it fun. The sisters wanted all the pledges to succeed.
They were assigned more embarrassing stuff too. One day they had to wear their pledge pins on their panties and get a random guy to take a picture of it in a campus building. Another day they had to spend the day at school, commando, in a short shirt and low-cut top. They had to show any sister who asked, that they were going commando, but they didn't have to do it in public or anything. The TAB sisters didn't think that those things were hard at all. Some of the pledges saw that task as an opportunity for a little public exposure. For a few girls that was too far to go, and they dropped out.
By the end of the second week, things got a little more interesting.
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Saturday, there was a big dinner at our brother fraternity house, Delta Tau Chi. There were twelve sisters and twelve brothers at the dinner. The frat and TAB pledges had to wait tables in "uniforms." The uniform for the guys was tighty-whities with DTC printed on the butt and a number on the front. The girls' uniforms were panties and bras. The panties had TAB printed on the butt and a number printed on the front. The panty and bra sets were conservative for college students but weren't something that your mother would wear.